Prayers behind the Ambon

Systematic Reviews: Perhaps “The Answer to Policy Makers’ Prayers”?

Four articles in this issue demonstrate effective adaptation of the methodology of systematic reviews to environmental health science (Johnson et al. 2014; Koustas et al. 2014; Lam et al. 2014; Woodruff and Sutton 2014). Researchers in many countries and disciplines have participated in developing this methodology for more than a century and have used it to synthesize evidence from primary sour...

EEG spectral analysis on Muslim prayers.

This study investigated the proposition of relaxation offered by performing the Muslim prayers by measuring the alpha brain activity in the frontal (F3-F4), central (C3-C4), parietal (P3-P4), and occipital (O1-O2) electrode placements using the International 10-20 System. Nine Muslim subjects were asked to perform the four required cycles of movements of Dhuha prayer, and the EEG were subsequen...

Adaptive Performance Network ? Is it the Answer to our Prayers ?

[Bak] has introduced a new class of adaptive networks, which tries to function in a volatile environment. The resulting dynamics, called adaptiue performance networks, show uctuation over a wide range of time scales. We introduce some guide lines for training and testing these new type of networks, which will be used to examine the power of these networks.

Ants of Ambon Island – diversity survey and checklist

The present checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Ambon is the first comprehensive overview of ant species recorded on the island during the last 150 years. The species list is based on literature and museum collections' records combined with data from our field survey in 2010. In total, there are 74 ant species and subspecies representing 34 genera and six subfamilies known from Ambon...

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